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Mandrakelinux Goes X.org

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the teaching-a-lesson dept.

dvalin writes "With Mandrakelinux now going for X.org it seems like every big linux distributor now has officialy dumped XFree86. First release for cooker was announced on the changelog list the 7th of June: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelog/2004-0 6/msg00799.php Nice to see for all us cookers out there:) Also on another note, Mandrakelinux has also switched to gcc-3.4 now"

3 of 363 comments (clear)

  1. This is great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I never was a Linux person, till my friend convinced me to install Mandrake 8.0 (the newest released version at the time). I was amazed by ease of use and its speed, not to mention being bundled with a lot of useful applications (XMMS, the GIMP, etc)... Going to X.org will only improve its ability and hopefully open it up to more people.

  2. Great , another config file format to learn. by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've never used X.org but I've used XFree86 for almost 10 years now and have not had any issues with it. What is the advantage of X.org? Are there good techincal reasons or is it just politics (of which frankly theres far too much off in OSS these days IMO)?

  3. Proprietary Drivers by Tepar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What about the proprietary drivers from ATI and NVidia? Do we need to start lobbying them to support X.org rather than xfree86, or will the existing drivers work?